No boot with new wireless card

allelopath · 05-17-2006, 03:55 PM

I have a new HP Pavilion dv5115nr laptop
I have installed OpenSuSE 10.1 and everything is fine except the wireless card.
It has a Broadcom wireless card, and so instead of dealing with the NSDIS Wrapper thing, i bought a card that is supposed to be very compatible with linux (1x5354 MP Plus Aries2 4G: 802.11a/b/g miniPCI Card).
However, when i install the card and power up, it won't boot, saying that there is unrecognized hardware.
What can I do?

Brian1 · 05-17-2006, 04:51 PM

Not 100 percent sure but I believe it uses the madwifi modules. Have you installed madwifi?
If not what module does it use?

Now when it won't boot is it the laptop bios telling you or the OpenSuse install telling you?

Brian1

allelopath · 05-17-2006, 04:54 PM

madwifi is not installed
According to this http://madwifi.org/wiki/Requirements
it must have an atheros chipset. I don't know if that is true of this card or how to confirm/deny it.

i think it is the BIOS giving the message

Brian1 · 05-17-2006, 05:36 PM

If it is the bios I would contact HP to see if it is a known issue or what you are doing can't be done. I think I read something recently on minipci wlan cards and some may not work due to the laptop itself. It may be configured to only to work with a few minipci cards. I would say HP could provide a bios update for that card.

Brian1

allelopath · 05-18-2006, 09:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian1

It may be configured to only to work with a few minipci cards.

Having looked around a bit, I think you are correct.
The BIOS is configured to work with only certain cards, specified by thte PCI ID, so that you have to buy from them.
See http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1028003479 for example.
From what i read HP isn't too interested in modifiying the BIOS to get it to work with other cards.